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It's the 21st century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn't enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie. In the following pages, you'll find our updated core curriculum, which fills in the gaps of your 20th-century education with the tools you need now. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.
Political Science
Statistical Literacy
Why take this course? We are misled by numbers and by our misunderstanding of probability.
What you'll learn: How to parse polls, play the odds, and embrace uncertainty.
e use only 10 percent of our brain! That familiar statement is false—there's no evidence to support it. Still, something about it just sounds right, so we internalize it and repeat it. Such is the power—and danger—of statistics.
Our world is shaped by widespread statistical illiteracy. We fear things that probably won't kill us (terrorist attacks) and ignore things that probably will (texting while driving). We buy lottery tickets. We fall prey to misleading gut instincts, which lead to biases like loss aversion—an inability to gauge risk against potential gain. The effects play out in the grocery store, the office, and the voting booth (not to mention the bedroom: People who are more risk-averse are less successful in love).
And it's getting worse: We are now 53 percent more likely than our parents to trust polls of dubious merit. (That figure is totally made up. See?) Where do all these numbers that we remember so easily and cite so readily come from? How are they calculated, and by whom? How do we misuse them to make them say what we want them to? We'll explore all of these questions in a sequence on sourcing statistics.
The self may be unknowable, but it isn't untrackable. It is now easier than ever to tap into a wealth of data—heart rate, caloric input and output, foot speed, sleep patterns, even your own genetic code—to glean new insights and make better decisions about your health and behavior.
Next, this course will turn to the topic of probabilistic intuition. We'll learn to judge what's likely and unlikely—and what's impossible to know. We'll learn about distorting habits of mind like selection bias—and how to guard against them. We'll gamble. We'll read The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Hamming, Expert Political Judgment by Philip Tetlock, and How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker by Penn Jillette and Mickey Lynn.
Finally, we'll learn how to use statistics to our advantage. You don't have to be an actuary to understand just how likely various potential outcomes actually are. —MAT HONAN & ROBIN SLOAN
How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff This book is as vital today as it was when it was first published in 1954. An invaluable exploration of grossly distorted graphs, correlation/causation confusion, and sucky sampling.
Calculated Bets, by Steven Skiena This computer science professor turned his obsession with the obscure sport of jai alai into a rigorous investigation of the power (and limitations) of mathematical modeling.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled explains why we're wrong to think that every event has an easily discernible cause, that all winners know why they won, and that all losers deserve to lose.
Counterinsurgency expert who has advised the State Department and military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
David Kilcullen has said that if he were a Muslim, he'd probably be a jihadist. But he isn't. In fact, he's one of the world's top anti-insurgency experts. "Twenty-Eight Articles," a paper he wrote that eventually made its way to general David Petraeus, was a series of tips for waging counterinsurgency. Now it's US strategy. Here are a few examples.
Create a compelling and simple narrative to counter the enemy's version of events.
Prove that you can provide basic needs better than the insurgency can.
Beware of the impact of global media, including blogs, on your message.
Determine How Insurance Rates Are Set Lloyd's of London estimated insurance for the South African World Cup at a staggering $9 billion. Determine how the agency arrived at that figure, factoring in brand value, endorsements, broadcast rights, and prize money.
Calculate Life Expectancy Assume you are an average American. Let's say your risk of dying from heart disease is 40 percent. Now assume that you follow basic recommendations for healthy exercise and diet, reducing your risk by 30 percent. Now assume you have a genetic variation that increases your overall risk by 12 percent. What is your adjusted risk of dying of heart disease?
Daily Kos Versus BigGovernment.com Find three examples of the same set of numbers presented in entirely different ways on the liberal blog Daily Kos and Andrew Breitbart's conservative Big Government site. In each case, show which source is using the more aggressive spin and determine which side—if either—is being more honest in its presentation of the facts.
Political Science
Post-State Diplomacy
Why take this course? As the world becomes evermore atomized, understanding the new leaders and constituencies becomes increasingly important.
What you'll learn: How to practice statecraft without states.
rom tribal insurgents to multinational corporations, private charities to pirate gangs, religious movements to armies for hire, a range of organizations now compete with (and sometimes eclipse) the nation-states in which they reside. Without capitals or traditional constituencies, they can't be persuaded or deterred by traditional tactics.
But that doesn't mean diplomacy is dead; quite the opposite. Negotiating with these parties requires the same skills as dealing with belligerent nations—understanding the shareholders and alliances they must answer to, the cultures that inform how they behave, and the religious, economic, and political interests they must address.
Power has always depended on who can provide justice, commerce, and stability. Successful insurgents aren't just thugs; they offer their members tangible benefits—community, money, education, and a sense of order (even if the rebels are the ones creating disorder in the first place). We must learn how they gain loyalty, even if our goal is to undercut it.
Want to know who determines your freedom of speech, commerce, association, and privacy? Don't look to the Constitution. Instead, turn to the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google, Verizon, and other companies that now establish the limits and mores that define civic life.
In this course, we'll study how some of the most influential entities on the world stage—religious extremists, criminal enterprises, diasporas—are at their most potent online and must be engaged there. Case in point: the South Ossetia War, in which Russian hackers set up websites that enabled anyone sympathetic to their cause to launch denial-of-service attacks against Georgian targets. We'll learn how to go about winning over the hearts and minds of these transnational groups. This requires launching sophisticated media and political campaigns—in much the same way that underground samizdat publications and Radio Free Europe broadcasts served to undermine the international Communist movement during the Cold War. —NOAH SHACHTMAN
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, by David Cordingly As this grisly history makes clear, life wasn't all yo-ho-hos for the original extralegal supranational entrepreneurs.
War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age, by Thomas Rid and Marc Hecker Outlines US, British, and Israeli counterinsurgency tactics, as well as the responses by al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Hezbollah.
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P. W. Singer Explains how private military firms have changed every aspect of modern warfare, from support and planning to combat and hiring.
Why take this course? Modern artists don't start with a blank page or empty canvas. They start with preexisting works.
What you'll learn: How to analyze—and create—artworks made out of other artworks.
ere are some defining artists of the post-postmodern age: Spike Jonze, whose video for Weezer's "Buddy Holly" wove the band into an episode of Happy Days; Girl Talk, who turned 322 snippets of recordings into an original album; and Garfield Minus Garfield, a website that erases the eponymous cat from his own comic strip. The creative act is no longer about building something out of nothing but rather building something new out of cultural products that already exist.
In this class, we'll examine the philosophical roots of remix culture and study seminal works like Robert Rauschenberg's Monogram and Jorge Luis Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote. And we'll examine modern-day exemplars from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing to Auto-Tune the News.
Next, we'll take a look at three sets of technological tools that helped democratize art creation.
Writing tools: From the Gutenberg printing press to Microsoft Word, publishing technology has made it easier to reproduce, copy, and manipulate words.
Aural tools: Grandmaster Flash's turntables and crossfader turned records into instruments. Samplers like the E-Mu SP-1200 and the Akai S950 made prerecorded music a manipulatable musical ingredient. Pro Tools and other software programs made professional-quality sound deconstruction available to the average consumer.
Video tools: From reel-to-reel film editing suites to Avid to iMovie, the process of video editing has grown cheaper and easier, as well.
Finally, students will be asked to create their own manipulations of preexisting works. —JASON TANZ
Neuro-anatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
When this Harvard researcher suffered a stroke—a blood vessel burst in the left side of her brain—she was suddenly unable to process verbal language or read. But Taylor also experienced a profound sense of carefree bliss. She applied her professional knowledge to what she was experiencing, eventually writing about the distinct personalities of the two hemispheres of the brain. Her prescription: Spend less time in the linear left half, which gives us our sense of time and self, and more in the pure sensory experience and interconnectedness of the right.
Write an essay on the role of remake and appropriation in art, focusing on Sherrie Levine's work After Walker Evans, which was composed of Levine's photographs of Walker Evans' photographs (the collection was swiftly confiscated by the Evans estate).
Identify all of the samples in the 1985 hip hop track "Lesson One: The Payoff Mix" by Double Dee & Steinski, and write an essay explaining the textual interplay created by the juxtapositions.
Create a unique work using only clips from the 60,000-plus educational, industrial, and amateur films in the Prelinger Archives (archive.org/details/prelinger). If you complete the extra credit assignment, please submit a link to email@example.com.
Applied Cognition
Why take this course? You have to know the brain to train the brain.
What you'll learn: How the mind works and how you can make it work for you.
ow we think is as important as what we think. The workings of our minds have long been mysterious, but we understand our mental processes much better today than we did 20 years ago. Unfortunately, education hasn't caught up.
In this course, we'll get smart on brains, beginning with a sequence on neuro-rhetoric. Ads, political campaigns, and spam have sharpened the art of persuasion and given it a quantitative edge. We'll read Denis Higgins' The Art of Writing Advertising and Robert Cialdini's Influence. We'll dissect late-night infomercials and Zynga's games to understand what makes them so compelling.
Next we'll turn to decisionmaking. We'll learn how emotion influences reasoning and how language influences emotion. You'll read Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide and Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice. We'll study the spread of memes with Facebook's "in-house sociologist," Cameron Marlow.
Finally, we'll delve into the fraught topic of brain maintenance. What nutrients affect mental performance? What drugs provide improved cognition? What can you do today to keep your mind healthy? Many of the most celebrated supplements and tools, from ginkgo biloba to the Nintendo DS game Brain Age, are of limited value. Separating science from the snake oil used to promote these enhancements will tap all the critical thinking skills you sharpen in this course.—ROBIN SLOAN
Stanford computer scientist and cocreator of the Prefuse and Protovis visualization tools shares tips for building better infographics:
Start with a question, let it evolve Don't predetermine what you're looking for—the most intriguing correlations might get lost.
Let form follow function Use the variables—position, size, shape, color—that best communicate the underlying data. Bar charts and scatter plots make it easier to compare numeric values. Using different colors can effectively indicate categories but work less well for representing numbers.
Keep it simple Resist the urge to overwhelm with information. Instead, show just the variables that illustrate your point. If you want to make multiple points, a series of simple graphics will be clearer than a single overloaded visual.
Writing for New Forms
Why take this course? You can write a cogent essay, but can you write it in 140 characters or less?
What you'll learn: How to adapt your message to multiple formats and audiences—human and machine.
riting used to mean arranging words in a particular order to be printed with ink on the cellulosic entrails of a tree. You wrote for people, and you hoped that the marks you made would leave a permanent impression upon the world. Today, writing can refer to anything from posting a one-line status update on Facebook to dashing off a 10,000-word blog entry. Your readers include not just humans but algorithms, and your goal is not immortality but a momentary piercing of the ever-shifting zeitgeist.
There are more writing opportunities than ever, but they require skills that Strunk and White never dreamed of. This course will teach you how to Photoshop images to create a narrative, edit a 20-second YouTube video, compress your thoughts into 140 characters (or clarify them into a PowerPoint presentation that won't put your audience to sleep), write a wiki entry that encourages other people to edit and adapt it, and ensure your work goes viral, turning readers into vectors for your ideas.
Technical skills, however, are not enough. Writing successfully requires knowing how to attract niche audiences with depth and detail. To demonstrate this, we'll contrast The New York Times Magazine's profile of Yankee pitcher Mariano Rivera with the accompanying Web video of the nearly 1,300 pitches Rivera threw during the 2009 baseball season.
The role of the writer is also changing. In the age of objectivity, writers kept their personalities out of their work. But now, the author's identity is paramount; readers have to believe you offer a unique—and trustworthy—perspective. Tone and personality are once again central to writing, not something to be smoothed and scrubbed. We'll study the work of The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, who built a blog empire with an informal voice that makes readers feel as if they are accessing his unvarnished thoughts; New York Times blogger Andrew Revkin, who encourages reader loyalty by posting long passages from the emails that they send him; and director Kevin Smith, who recounts sex with his wife in lascivious detail to keep his 1.7 million Twitter followers hitting Refresh.
Writing today also means mastering metatext, the cues and context that determine how, where, and if your words get read. We'll learn that winning links depends on appealing to the unique tastes of different social networks. Each link will help you attract your most influential audience—the algorithms that determine where your story ends up in Google's search results. As we optimize our writing for this cyborg readership, we'll also learn the new tenets of writing well: Be conspicuous, be entertaining, and leave space for others to talk. —ALEXIS MADRIGAL
@ebertchicago Twitter feed Provides insight into the constant churn of renowned film reviewer Roger Ebert's mind and erases the distance between critic and audience.
"Slow Loris Loves Getting Tickled" YouTube video This shaky one-minute piece takes an exotic subject—an endangered and adorable Asian primate—and makes it feel as familiar as your aunt's cat videos.
"Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett" YouTube video Cleverly edited clip makes it look like the PBS host is interviewing himself, then veers into awkward pauses, absurd interjections, and a mounting sense of despair. This mashup starts out amusing but turns haunting; it proves you don't need a pen to describe the void.
Cofounder of Squid Labs
Griffith knew his energy consumption was harming the planet but assumed he was more conscientious than most people. Then he crunched the numbers, taking every aspect of his life into account, and discovered that he was much, much worse than others. Now he heads up WattzOn, an online service that helps people track their own energy consumption.
Waste Studies
Why take this course? Waste is the single biggest drag on our productivity—and it's everywhere.
What you'll learn: How to become a smarter consumer, investor, and conserver.
hen trying to understand a country's health, economists have a lot of numbers to pick from: GDP, consumer confidence, the balance of trade. But they could learn more by looking at the total amount of waste produced.
Waste isn't just garbage (though there's a lot of that: The US produces 250 million tons of it annually). Each year, we lose billions of dollars in valuable time as we sit in traffic and endless meetings. We spend billions more in health premiums that pay for administrative bloat rather than medical care. High unemployment rates constitute another kind of waste—available labor that isn't being put to productive economic use.
Waste, of course, is a simple fact of nature: It's baked right into the second law of thermodynamics. Instead of seeking to eliminate it, we need to learn what causes it, how to reduce it, and what purpose it might serve.
To see how devastating unchecked waste can be, we'll examine the recent economic collapse. The financial markets were overcome by derivatives that took in billions of dollars without performing any benefit to the overall economy. Those wasteful innovations—like risky subprime mortgage pools—were instrumental in causing the worst economic slump since the Great Depression.
We'll learn how engineers, industrialists, and economists are finding new ways to reduce waste. "Smart" meters tell people how much power their appliances are consuming; as energy customers become more aware of their consumption, they use less. Companies like GE and Intel are spending billions of dollars to improve the efficiency of their turbines and computer chips.
Finally, we'll take a more nuanced look at waste, asking how much we can eliminate and how much is necessary for a healthy economy. Some level of oversupply is required to insure against catastrophe, just as having two kidneys provides a backup in case one fails. And economists have concluded that some level of unemployment—perhaps the cruelest form of waste—is necessary to prevent runaway inflation. —FELIX SALMON
Saul Griffith's 2007 Energy Consumption: 18,000 Watts
43% Transportation (air)
21% Personal spending
17% Taxes and govt. services
10% Transportation (car, bike, and boat)
6% Gas and electricity
3% Food and drink
WEEK 1 Simple electroplating with lemon juice WEEK 2 Arc weld with a microwave WEEK 3 Bake PCBs in an oven WEEK 4 Make plastic from stuff you eat WEEK 5 Build a k<1 nuclear reactor in a closet
Vocational Studies
Domestic Tech
Why take this course? We've lost touch with the act of making, repairing, and upgrading physical objects.
What you'll learn: How to apply hard science and engineering to everyday life.
n 20th-century high schools, shop and home economics classes were considered easy As—or worse, one-way tickets to unexciting vocations. But we've become divorced from the skills those classes imparted. This course reexamines every aspect of home life, from cooking to cabinet repair, through the prism of science.
In the 18th century, it was common for curious amateurs to carry out experiments in their home. We'll study the history, from philosophers John Locke and Benjamin Franklin to mythbusters Kari Byron and Jamie Hyneman. We will explore outfits like DIYbio and Foldit, which are tapping into that same spirit today.
The High Tech Home Ec sequence will cover kitchen chemistry and nutrition, providing a better understanding of how science can help you perform the simplest of tasks, like boiling an egg. (If the yolk turns greenish-gray, the iron in it has reacted with the sulfur in the egg white. To arrest this process, don't overcook, and place the eggs in cold water as soon as they are off the boil.)
The Domestic Shop sequence will demonstrate the astounding range of experiments and projects you can do with household appliances. (No lab fee—the lab is your home and the world around you.)—PATRICK DI JUSTOGo Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Through Soccer Night in Newtown, local families and children got a chance to meet with Major League Soccer and U.S. national team stars on Monday night. Participants came out to play in small-sided games and spend an afternoon thinking about the beautiful game rather than the devastation experienced by the Connecticut community in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, which took the lives of 20 first-graders and six teachers and staff.
For a few hours', the Newtown Youth Academy, a stately, 1930s-era former hospital building quietly tucked back from a main street on the Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown provided respite for about 1,500 residents. What was a quiet, almost serene snow-covered sunny afternoon turned into a surge of children and parents, all pouring through the front entrance and into the large indoor soccer facility with many turned away.
Through MLS W.O.R.K.S., 30 pro players from 11 teams took part including Houston's Brad Davis and Brian Ching, the LA Galaxy's Landon Donovan, the New York Red Bulls' Kenny Cooper, the New England Revolution's Matt Reis, and the San Jose Earthquakes' Marcus Tracy, who grew up in Newtown and whose mother once taught at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Road trip with @kristinelilly from Boston to Newtown,CT for #SoccerNightInNewtown . See you all soon.
— Mia Hamm (@MiaHamm) January 7, 2013
US national team stars, including Cobi Jones, Alexi Lalas, Mia Hamm, and Connecticut native Kristine Lilly, also took part.
"When CNN first stated how many people lost their lives, it was complete shock and disbelief,' said the Earthquakes' former Newtown resident Marcus Tracy. "It was unfathomable to think that this happened in the same town I lived in for 18 years, two miles away, at the school my Mom once taught at. It hurts you as a resident of Newtown that something like this could happen, so just try and imagine how parents, brothers, sisters and spouses are feeling right now. You can't – it's impossible."
Houston Dynamo president Chris Canetti, a native of nearby Guilford, Conn., organized the event. He insists that "Soccer Night in Newtown" will have legs beyond Monday, and that he intends to bring a similar event back to the community in the spring. By then the snow will have thawed and there won't be a capacity on an event meant to heal everyone who needs the help.
Check out the Twitter stream of players who participated in the event for photos and reactions.
Players participating in Soccer Night in Newtown:
Columbus Crew
Ethan Finlay
FC Dallas
Zach Loyd, Bobby Warshaw
Houston Dynamo
Corey Ashe, Brad Davis, Brian Ching, Ricardo Clark, Tally Hall
LA Galaxy
Landon Donovan, Sean Franklin, Rafael Garcia
New England Revolution
Kevin Alston, Darrius Barnes, Hunter Freeman, Ryan Guy, Matt Reis, Clyde Simms, Chris Tierney, Bobby Shuttleworth
New York Red Bulls
Kenny Cooper, Heath Pearce, Ryan Meara
Philadelphia Union
Chris Albright, Ray Gaddis
Real Salt Lake
Kwame Watson-Siriboe
San Jose Earthquakes
Marcus Tracy
Seattle Sounders
David Estrada, Josh Ford
Vancouver Whitecaps
Brad Knighton , Omar Salgado
US Men's Legends
Cobi Jones, Alexi Lalas, Eric Wynalda, Mike Burns, Tony Meola
US Women's Legends
Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Christie Rampone
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Fresh Cut Collection
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ALMH to host 'Advances in Stroke Treatment and Recovery' seminar
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[November 08, 2012]
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital will host a free community
education event on Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the latest
advances in stroke treatment and recovery.
"Advances in Stroke Treatment and Recovery" will feature three
medical staff members and provide a question-and-answer panel for
participants to ask questions. Join the medical director of the ALMH
emergency department, Katherine Anderson, D.O., of Mid-America
Emergency Physicians, along with Dr. Sajjed Mueed from SIU
HealthCare and Dr. Agusto Elias from Clinical Radiologists to learn
about stroke.
Those in attendance will learn how to recognize the signs and
symptoms of a stroke and the processes for evaluation and medical
management of a stroke. The panel will also discuss the new
Telestroke technology available at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
and neurointerventional treatment options.
The event will take place in Steinfort A and B conference rooms
at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Registration is not necessary,
but interested individuals can call 217-605-5008 to register or for
more information.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Gilbert wanted to be a schoolteacher since she was in the first grade and was inspired by the teacher who taught her to read and write.
Gilbert carried out that childhood dream with a rare commitment — she retired last week at the age of 94 after a 63-year teaching career in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
"I'm going to be 95. I looked in the mirror and said, 'I better do it now before I get too old,'" she joked. "I didn't want to leave, but I didn't want to be carried out on a stretcher."
It's unclear if Gilbert is the oldest fulltime classroom teacher among the nation's teaching corps of more than 3 million, but she certainly ranks among the most senior. She started teaching in the 1940s, took a break and then returned to the classroom in 1956.
In 1961, she joined the staff at the brand new high school opening in the well-heeled Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles and remained there until Feb. 22, passing along her passion for poetry and literature to generations of students. Some of her former students are now teachers at Palisades Charter High School, who say she'll be sorely missed.
"She is utterly unique," said English teacher Holly Korbonski, who had Gilbert as her English teacher in 1978. "We're all sort of bereft, honestly."
Korbonski remembers Gilbert customizing reading lists for each student. She assigned Korbonski to read "The Great Gatsby," among other works. The F. Scott Fitzgerald novel is now Korbonski's specialty.
"She was prophetic," Korbonski said. "Her gifts to students continue to grow and magnify through life."
Some of Gilbert's fondest memories date from the 1960s, when a spirit of rebellion was rife at high school and college campuses across the country. In one protest she recalled, students and teachers declared a strike and walked out to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Another demonstration occurred over a reason that was another sign of those heady times: the length of boys' hair.
"We had a very strict principal and he said all the boys had to cut their hair or be suspended," she recalled. "All of them were suspended, and we all walked out — students and teachers."
Today's kids are more self-centered, noted Gilbert, whose students call her "Mama G." She calls her students her "bubbelahs."
"It's the entitlement generation," she observed. "'I'm entitled to an A, I'm entitled to go to Harvard.' I think it emanates from their parents."
Still, it was the love of children that kept Gilbert teaching through the years, even when her wealthy developer husband died in 1987 and left her a fortune.
Sam Gilbert was an unbridled devotee of the UCLA men's basketball program whose influence on players caused the NCAA to order the team to disassociate from him in 1981. He died four days before he was indicted on federal racketeering and money-laundering charges in connection with his business activities.
Rose Gilbert has plowed much money back into education. She funds scholarships for high school and college students and has donated a pool complex, auditorium and small theater to the high school.
Her retirement promises to be as active — she's volunteering at a health clinic and a domestic violence shelter, and plans to keep her hand in education by interviewing high school and college students for scholarships and honors programs.
"I have loads of energy," Gilbert said. "I want to devote it to good causes."


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CAIRO — Protesters remained camped out Saturday in Tahrir Square, the hub of demonstrations in the heart of Cairo, vowing to wait President Hosni Mubarak out as Egypt's unrest entered its 12th day.
"Mubarak must go, Mubarak must go" and "Hold your ground, God is with us," someone shouted over a loudspeaker, after a brief burst of heavy gunfire early Saturday morning.
The origin of the gunfire was unclear and there were no reports of casualties. One protester said the army, which is separating pro-democracy supporters and Mubarak loyalists after violent clashes earlier this week, had fired in the air.
Television footage later showed people milling around but there was no sign of violence.
Newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman was due to meet a group of prominent figures on Saturday to examine a proposed solution under which he would assume the president's powers for an interim period, one of the group's members said.
But with some of the protesters insisting they wanted not just Mubarak but also his allies out, it was unclear that would be enough to end the crisis.
Mubarak said on Thursday Egypt faced chaos if he resigned now, though he has promised to step down in September.
On Friday, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo to demand an immediate end to Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of the army or the president's U.S. allies forcing him out just yet.
President Barack Obama again appealed to Mubarak to begin an orderly process to relinquish power. But Obama stopped short of publicly calling for Mubarak's immediate resignation.
"My hope is he will end up making the right decision," Obama said at the White House. He commented at a brief news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper following a day of meetings.
"His term is up relatively shortly," the president noted. "The key question he should ask himself is, how does he leave a meaningful legacy behind."
Fox News reported late Friday that Suleiman, who was named by Mubarak as vice president in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor, was the target of a recent assassination attempt. Suleiman wasn't hurt but two of his bodyguards were killed, according to the report.
A senior Obama administration official confirmed that the attack happened soon after Suleiman was appointed, on Jan. 29, Fox News reported.
NBC's Richard Engel said the report could not be verified. "US source says 'NO evidence of any attempt...rumor originated with media," he tweeted.
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Earlier, Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq confirmed Mubarak's intentions to remain in office until in September, Egyptian state TV reported.
"We as civilized people must honor the president, who did a good job regardless of mistakes here and there," said Ahmed Shafiq on Egyptian state TV, which was translated by msnbc TV. "Today the Egyptian people see that the president will not step down."
Checkpoints and children
Protesters waved flags and sang the national anthem Friday, emboldened in their campaign to oust Mubarak after they repelled pro-regime attackers in two days of bloody street fights.
The government relaxed a capital curfew, which runs from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. instead of 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., according to media reports.
Thousands including families with children flowed over bridges across the Nile into Tahrir Square, a sign the movement was not intimidated after fending off everything thrown by Mubarak supporters — storms of hurled concrete, metal rebar and firebombs, fighters on horses and camels and automatic gunfire barrages.
The protesters passed through a series of beefed-up checkpoints by the military and the protesters themselves guarding the square.
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Protesters in the square held up signs reading "Now!" in a rally that drew around 100,000 — the largest gathering since the quarter-million who turned out on Tuesday. They labeled the demonstration the "Friday of departure," in hopes it would be the day that Mubarak goes.
Thousands prostrated themselves during noon prayers, and after uttering the prayer's concluding words "God's peace and blessings be upon you" they began chanting their message to Mubarak: "Leave! Leave! Leave!" A man sitting in a wheelchair was lifted — wheelchair and all — over the heads of the crowd and he pumped his arms in the air.
'Gangs of thugs'
The Arabic news network Al-Jazeera said a "gang of thugs" stormed its offices in continuation of attacks on journalists by regime supporters that erupted Thursday. It said the attackers burned the office and damaged equipment.
The editor of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood's website, Abdel-Galil el-Sharnoubi, told the AP that policemen stormed its office Friday morning and arrested 10 to 15 of its journalists. Also clashes with sticks and fists between pro- and anti-government demonstrators erupted in two towns in southern Egypt.
The ruling National Democratic Party, accused by protesters of being behind the gangs of thugs who attacked them, issued a call on state media for its supporters to "adhere to a truce and not enter confrontations with others." It denied it had any role in Wednesday's attack on the square. Protesters accuse the regime of orchestrating the violence by using police in civilian clothes and paid thugs.Video: For elderly U.S. woman, a safe exit from Egypt (on this page)
The prime minister and the vice president have both said the government made a commitment not to chase the protesters out of the square.
Various proposals for a post-Mubarak transition floated by the Americans, the regime and the protesters share some common ground, but with one elephant-sized difference: The protesters say nothing can be done before Mubarak leaves.
'You don't understand'
The 82-year-old president insists he will serve out the remaining seven months of his term to ensure a stable process.
"You don't understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now," Mubarak said he told President Barack Obama. He warned in an interview with ABC News that chaos would ensue.
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Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the leaders of the protest movement, laid out his scenario on Friday: a transitional government headed by a presidential council of two or three figures, including a military representative.
Suleiman has offered negotiations with all political forces, including the protest leaders and regime's top foe — the Muslim Brotherhood. On the agenda are constitutional changes needed to ensure a free vote ahead of September presidential elections to replace Mubarak, who since protests began has publicly committed for the first time that he would not seek re-election.
The amendments would include provisions to ensure independent supervision of elections, a loosening of now-suffocating restrictions on who can run for president and term limits for the president.
ElBaradei said he respects Suleiman as someone to negotiate with over the transition, but did not address whether he should have any presidential role.
This report includes information from The Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News and msnbc.com staff.


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'This Week' Transcript: Stimulus Debate
Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Lindsey Graham, R-SC, Peter King, D-NY, Maxine Waters, D-CA
Feb. 15, 2009 -- ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS"
STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, and welcome to "This Week."
The president gets his plan.
REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: We have done something today that is transformational for our nation.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But at what cost?
REP. JOHN A. BOEHNER, R-OHIO, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: What happened to the promise that we're going to let the American people see what's in this bill for 48 hours? But, nope, we don't have time to do that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And his strategy for sick banks...
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER: This program is going to require a substantial and sustained commitment of public resources.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... falls flat on Wall Street.
(UNKNOWN): We wanted real guts and details to this, and we didn't get it today.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Will the Obama's plans confound the skeptics and fix the economy? Senate, House Democrats and Republicans square off. Our "This Week" debate.
Then, one more pick for commerce secretary bows out.
SEN. JUDD GREGG, R-N.H.: I said yes. That was my mistake.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is it one more sign that bipartisanship has its limits? That debate and the rest of the week's politics on our roundtable with George Will, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and Donna Brazile.
And, as always, the Sunday funnies.
JAY LENO, TALK SHOW HOST: The economy's so bad, Barack Obama's new slogan, "Spare change you can believe in." That's how bad it is.
ANNOUNCER: From the heart of the nation's capital, "This Week" with ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos, live from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello again.
When President Obama signs his $787 billion stimulus plan into law on Tuesday, he'll set a new record. It will be the single most expensive piece of economic legislation ever in our history, and it passed without a single Republican vote in the House and only three in the Senate.
So the voting is done. Let the debate begin.
For that, I'm joined today by four key players from Capitol Hill, Senator Chuck Schumer, the vice chair of the Joint Economic Committee.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, she's a senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.
Senior Republican on that committee, Representative Peter King of New York.
And Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Senate Budget Committee.
And I'm going to begin with your governor, Mark Sanford.
GRAHAM: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Big opponent of the stimulus legislation. And I want to show everybody what he wrote in this morning's State newspaper in South Carolina. He says that, "For every job the bill creates, American taxpayers will spend $223,000. If we add the costs of this bill to the previous efforts of the federal government to deal with the financial crisis, the American taxpayer is on the hook for $9.7 trillion. If the stimulus bill were a country, it would be the 15th- largest country in the world."
Senator Schumer, he says it's going to be a waste, it's not going to work, and we're going to be paying for it for generations.
SCHUMER: Well, you know, it's easy to say no. We have the worst economy we've had since the Great Depression, half a million people more losing jobs every month. The economy's hurdling southward. Yes, this is a big, strong, bold package.
It's going to do three things. It's going to keep or create 3 million to 4 million jobs. It's going to put money into the hands of the middle class so they spend it in the stores and restaurants and get the economy going. And it's going to create an infrastructure that not only puts people to work, but leaves something after, God willing, we get out of this. To do nothing risks a depression.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So what's wrong with that?
GRAHAM: Well, I wanted to do something. I think we do need a stimulus package with a focus, and that's create jobs in the near term. Eleven percent of the appropriated money in this bill hits in 2009. Most of the money in this bill is in entitlement spending that's not going to create jobs.
Twenty-seven percent of the bill is now tax cuts. That's down significantly. And of those tax cuts, most of them, only $3 billion goes to small business.
Seventy-five percent of the people in this country work for small business. Of a $787 billion bill, $3 billion is directed to small- business people. I think we missed the mark a long way. We increased new government; we did not increase new jobs.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And, Congressman Waters, when this bill came out of the Senate at the end of the week, your speaker, Nancy Pelosi, had to quell a mini-revolt among House Democrats who actually take an opposite view from Senator Graham. They thought the bill wasn't big enough, and they didn't like the cuts, particularly in state aid, education aid, that came in the Senate.
WATERS: Absolutely. We worked very hard on that bill in the House. And as you know, many well-known economists say that this should be a trillion-dollar bailout bill, that we need to put more into our economy.
And we worked very hard on education, as you know. Our schools are in great disrepair in this country. We have children going to schools in deplorable conditions, and so we wanted more money in school construction. We thought, not only does that create jobs, it's an investment in the future.
And so those kinds of programs we really, really wanted to fight for. As it turns out, we have through the conference committee accepted the amendments from those Republicans who were willing to step up to the bat and at least do something for the people of this country. And so we lost on some of it, but it's a big win for all families and all Americans.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Only three Republicans, Congressman King, in the -- in the Senate, zero in House. And I have to say, it -- it surprised me that zero Republicans in the House went along with this. And, for example, I know that you support infrastructure spending. I know you support Medicaid aid to the states, yet you -- you vote no on this. Was this more taking one for the team so the Republicans could be unified?
KING: No, not at all. First of all, I do support the Medicaid provisions in the bill. But as far as the infrastructure, less than 9.5 percent of the bill goes to infrastructure on transit and highway construction. That was a key part to me, which was really severely diminished.
As far as taxes, actually, Lindsey says 27 percent. Really, it's only 18 percent in new tax credits, because the fact that the AMT was put in, which would have been factored in anyway. So it's really only 18 percent in tax relief. We give more tax relief to the arts than we do to small businesses.
And, you know, obviously, we have to do a lot. I supported strong infrastructure, strong tax relief. We didn't do it. And that's why you have people even like Alice Rivlin, who was Bill Clinton's budget director, testified against the stimulus bill, Martin Feldstein, who had -- had been for it is now against it, and the CBO says, over a 10-year period, it's going to diminish the economy, bring down the GDP, and actually cause a reduction in wages.
SCHUMER: Yes, the bottom line is, first, there's good -- good help for small business. The NOL provision is kept in for businesses...
SCHUMER: ... below 15 -- it allows businesses that have had losses to take those losses now so they don't have to pay tax instead, can put people to work. And there's going to be more for small business in the economic plan that the president is announcing.
The bottom line is this: This -- the -- when you ask people what you need to do about this economy, the number-one thing all economists -- Martin Feldstein, who wanted a bigger package -- he wanted a different one, but a bigger one, he didn't want no -- all of them say the great danger we face, George, is what they call a deflationary spiral, prices keep going down.
And once you get into that spiral deeply, you don't know how to get out. That's what the Great Depression was. To a lesser extent, that's what happened in Japan for 10 years. And we need to get out of it. And this is a jolt to the economy. It's a strong jolt.
It's not perfect, but it certainly is a lot better than doing nothing and a lot better, frankly...
KING: But no one suggested we do nothing, Chuck.
SCHUMER: But, well...
KING: No one suggested we do nothing.
SCHUMER: ... you know what? To say that $50 million in the arts is a reason to vote against it -- now, I happen to think the arts is an economic engine in New York, and I would be for that provision, but you might disagree with it.
But to say that's the reason to vote against a bill, when there are -- still on infrastructure, if you add it all in, there's close to $100 billion. If you -- it's including water, and sewer, and high- speed rail. If you talk about the FMAP relief, that is much greater. That is 100 times greater, just about, than the money to the arts.
SCHUMER: So let me just say this.
SCHUMER: We had a lot of people who said, "Take this out, take that out."
WATERS: That's right.
SCHUMER: Most of those things were taken out, and they still voted against the bill.
KING: ... so much is missing, and that's the reality.
WATERS: We took the amendments from those three Republicans who were willing to step up to the bat.
KING: In the House, no one was allowed to take -- no Republican was allowed to take part in the process.
KING: Not one Republican was allowed to take part in the process in the House.
WATERS: That's -- that is not -- that is not the truth.
KING: It is the truth.
WATERS: As a matter of fact, we should focus on, when you had the opportunity to participate, why not do what those three moderate Republicans did? Step up to the plate; offer your amendments. You know, we took all of their amendments.
Do you know we reduced the neighborhood stabilization program by a couple of billion dollars? We reduced Head Start, Early Start, school construction. We took the amendments. And so all those who...
KING: The fact is...
SCHUMER: And one other thing...
KING: ... not one Republican was allowed at the table in the House of Representatives when the bill was...
KING: I'm talking about the House.
SCHUMER: Let's just look at the Senate. The two biggest amendment that we accepted were Republican amendments, $70 billion -- you disagreed with it -- Senator Grassley, AMT, $38 billion, housing relief, Senator Isakson. They still voted against the bill.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me bring Senator Graham back into this now.
SCHUMER: We don't know what more to do in terms of bipartisanship.
SCHUMER: Well, how about the Senate?
GRAHAM: If I may say, if this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed. I know bipartisanship when I see it. I've participated in it. I've gone back home and gotten primary opponents because I wanted to be bipartisanship.
There's nothing about this process that's been bipartisanship. This is not change we can believe in. You rammed it through the House. You started out with the idea, "We won. We write the bill." The markup, Chuck, in the Senate took an hour and 45 minutes. What's the AMT got to do with creating jobs?
SCHUMER: ... Republican amendment.
GRAHAM: We had every Republican...
WATERS: It is a Republican amendment.
GRAHAM: ... vote for a $440 billion stimulus package that cut taxes, had infrastructure spending, and helped people who were out of work. We blew it when it came to coming together here. Let's don't blow it on housing...
STEPHANOPOULOS: And now, but, Senator, your -- your governor, who I started with, Governor Sanford... GRAHAM: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... is suggesting that he may not take the money -- that is $8 billion -- for the state of South Carolina, about 5 percent of our gross product.
GRAHAM: It won't be that -- it won't be that much, but...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Should -- if he refuses the money, will you stand by him?
GRAHAM: I think it would be smart for South Carolina to take the money, because South Carolina is going to have to pay the money back. The average taxpayer gets $8 of tax relief, but their children get $1 trillion of debt.
GRAHAM: So could we have done better? Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... return it to the Treasury Department?
GRAHAM: Well, at the end of the day, it won't come to the Treasury. It would be spent in some other state. So what I think we've done is blown an opportunity to help the economy by -- we should have started with housing and banking, because this is good money after bad, unless you spend housing and banking.
And the question people need to understand is, how much more do you need to fix housing and banking? $350 billion left in the TARP is not even close to fix housing and banking. And every dollar we waste in here and every policy change in this bill that could have went through the normal process is an opportunity loss for this country.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That brings me to the next -- I do want to get into the banking and the housing provisions, but there was one more provision in this stimulus package that I want to ask you about, Senator Schumer. At the last minute, a new executive compensation provision was brought in that would cap bonus pay for executives at these financial institutions that have received TARP money at a third of their salary.
Now, the opponents of this, including those in the Obama administration, have a number -- they say it's going to lead to a brain drain, workers are going to go to foreign banks. They say it's going to force the banks to pay back that TARP money before it is the right thing to do. They also say it might have the perverse effect of actually increasing salaries at the banks. So why put this in now?
SCHUMER: Well, first, you know, Wall Street has to get it. And the bottom line is, the average American says, "I go to my desk. I go to my assembly line. I do the right thing. I make no mistakes. And now I'm worried about being laid off. There are declines in pay and benefits. My paycheck stretches less."
And yet it seems that a lot of the people on Wall Street basically messed up and they continue to get high salaries. So they're...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you don't (inaudible) this is going to backfire?
SCHUMER: No, let me say two things about it. First of all, Senator Dodd put together a provision, and it's a provision that I think is strong and tough, and we need strong and tough. And Wall Street has to learn, if you're going to take money, billions of dollars, you're going to have to limit executive comp.
I disagree with the administration in this sense. I have no problem if companies want to get out of this program and get out of the program quickly, that's their business and that's their right. And I think that's just fine.
But if you're taking federal money, you're going to have to have some limits...
WATERS: They're not going to get out.
SCHUMER: ... on exec comp.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Does any of you disagree? Or is everybody in unanimity on that point?
KING: I look forward to the debate between Chuck Schumer and President Obama on this issue.
No, I will say, I agree there should have been some caps. I think this went too far, and I think it can be counterproductive.
GRAHAM: Can -- can I -- can I suggest why Chuck is right?
WATERS: The president is going to sign the bill with the provision in it. And you're absolutely right. They (inaudible) this would be a disincentive to talent and that it would be refused on Wall Street. However, they're now saying, you know, they are going to have to live with it. And I'm -- he's going to sign the bill.
GRAHAM: And the reason -- the reason that we're doing things about CEOs, like Chuck has described, is because people were burned on TARP I. And the big loss of this bill is it's not going down well with the public. I think it missed its mark in terms of stimulating the economy. It grew the government more than stimulating the economy. It's going to be hard for us to go back after this bill to ask for more money for housing and banking.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But do you think that's going to be absolutely essential? Secretary Geithner, when you were...
GRAHAM: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... would not say how much more would be needed for the banks.
GRAHAM: I know $350 billion is not enough to deal with the toxic assets and jump-start housing.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How much more is needed?
GRAHAM: You know, some people tell me over a half a -- half a trillion dollars. And after this exercise of TARP I and now the stimulus bill, it makes it harder for everybody here to go back to the public and say, "Please give us more money, because we seem irresponsible."
There are things in this bill that make the public want to throw up. They know it doesn't create a job. It just creates more government. And we blew it.
WATERS: I don't see anything in this bill that would make anybody want to throw up. This was exciting...
GRAHAM: Changing welfare rules in this bill?
WATERS: The welfare rules were not changed in this bill. As a matter of fact...
STEPHANOPOULOS: It does relieve some work requirements, doesn't it?
KING: Work requirements and also total benefits.
GRAHAM: Doubling the size of...
KING: And it also takes out the verification of illegal immigrants.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Congresswoman Waters, finish...
WATERS: Yes. What this bill does is give tax breaks to 95 percent of American workers. We've had tax breaks from the previous administration for the richest 1 percent in America. Now the American workers are going to get a break.
When you couple these tax breaks along with the jobs that are going to be created in the infrastructure, you're going to have not only people who have been losing jobs back in the workplace, but we're going to save jobs and keep businesses from laying off people.
This is exciting. And this gives hope. This is a beginning. This is a long-term investment...
GRAHAM: If I may...
WATERS: ... in our economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... Congressman King?
KING: The Congressional Budget Office says, over the period of 10 years, it's going to deflate gross domestic product and bring down wages. So you voted for a bill that's going to bring down...
SCHUMER: No.
KING: ... workers' wages under the guise of making people feel good in the short term.
SCHUMER: I just want to say this. Every one -- every one of the 435 House members and 100 senators can find some provisions they don't like in this bill. Ninety-five percent of this bill -- 98 percent does three things: creates of preserves jobs, builds infrastructure, and puts money into the pockets of the middle class.
You know, there's a time for quibbling and there's a time for coming together. This was a time -- President Obama reached out to a large number of people -- this was a time to come together.
And, you know, I am disappointed. When George Bush proposed his program, it was all tax cuts, not one single investment program. We all voted for it...
WATERS: That's right.
SCHUMER: ... because we thought the country had to come together.
KING: That's...
SCHUMER: We could have said, Peter, "It didn't have this; it didn't have that." This was a time to come together.
KING: This isn't quibbling, though. We're talking about serious differences.
GRAHAM: Well, why didn't we? Why didn't we?
KING: And we're talking about bipartisanship. House Republicans were not allowed at the table. They were not allowed any input whatsoever into the formation of this bill or changing the bill in any way.
GRAHAM: A $1.1 trillion debt passed onto the next generation is something to quibble about. The tax provisions that would have created jobs were gutted. The Isakson amendment was gutted. It was a $15,000 refundable tax credit...
SCHUMER: You didn't vote for the bill.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... houses.
GRAHAM: Well, OK, so... (CROSSTALK)
SCHUMER: He didn't vote for the bill when it was in there.
GRAHAM: ... so you punish the taxpayer? You punish the person trying to buy a home?
SCHUMER: No, no, we're going to get a better provision.
GRAHAM: The carry loss back provision for business was $67 billion in the Senate. The compromise version was $4 billion. The tax provisions that would have created jobs were replaced by spending. Four hundred dollar checks goes to the consumer. It's about $8 in a check -- in a pay period. We tried this last year. That's not going to create any jobs.
WATERS: That's only one portion of this bill.
GRAHAM: That's most of the tax cuts.
WATERS: No, it's not all of the tax cuts.
SCHUMER: And let me say one other thing.
GRAHAM: You gutted the tax provisions for business.
SCHUMER: On the floor of the Senate -- where there was an open process, Peter -- but on the floor of the Senate, I heard over and over again, "This is a trillion dollars that we're not paying for it." I never heard that mentioned when it came to the Iraq war, which is $1 trillion which we're not paying for. I never heard it mentioned when George Bush changed a surplus of $300 billion into a deficit of over $800 billion.
SCHUMER: So -- so all of a sudden, all of a sudden...
SCHUMER: ... the reason to be against this is deficit spending. But when it was Iraq war or tax cuts for the highest-income people, we never heard it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think we heard a lot of different reasons to be against it (ph), and I want to move on to the banks.
KING: ... Iraq war, too, Chuck.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to move on to the banks, because this is the next big issue coming.
GRAHAM: This is a big issue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And, you know, what we're seeing is many more economists that -- as I talked about, Secretary Geithner's plan had several different elements, setting up a new public-private partnership to buy these toxic assets, new capital injections to the bank, didn't say how much money would be required, a new stress test for the banks, but we all saw that reaction in the markets.
Now, they may have reacted about it because they didn't get what they were hoping for, which was a big bailout. But a lot of economists now are saying that what is really -- what could be needed, is, bite the bullet, nationalization.
Nouriel Roubini, one of the men who saw the -- the crisis coming, said nationalization is the answer in today's Washington Post. President Obama says no.
OBAMA: Sweden has a different set of cultures in terms of how the government relates to markets, you know, and -- and America's different. And we want to retain a strong sense of private capital fulfilling the core investment needs of this country.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But, Congresswoman Waters, Mr. Roubini and others say we're all Swedes now, that we should just do what they did when they faced their crisis. They nationalized the banks, and they came out of it OK.
WATERS: Well, George, as you know, the word "nationalization" scares the hell out of people. And so the debate has been opened up now, and that's good. Let's talk about it.
We know that, as we have this capital infusion into these banks, we're owning more and more of them. Citibank is probably almost nationalized with the amount of money that we've put in it. But I don't think that we are ready to move to the point of a formalized nationalized banking program yet.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even if it's the only thing that will work?
WATERS: Well, we may get to that point. And I'm not opposed to that. But I think the discussion is just opening up. This is new for America.
KING: Yes, I think this is probably going to slow down the tempo of your show. I think this is some place where we really should try to work together. I actually worked with Chuck on TARP I.
SCHUMER: We did.
KING: This is a very, very critical issue. And so let's see what Geithner is going to propose. I wish he had been a little more specific this week. But, you know, I assume that's going to come out soon. And we really have to...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But as you learned more about what he proposed, were you more comfortable with it?
KING: I'm comfortable with Geithner. I know he didn't pay his taxes; I know all those issues. But the fact is, he is a very smart guy. He understands the issues. And I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt upfront to at least get the debate going and get it on the table.
GRAHAM: The -- the reason I did vote for him is because I -- I talked with Chuck and Pete. He has a good reputation, I think, as a smart guy.
I think if you put most of our major banks under a stress test, they're going to fail. And this idea...
STEPHANOPOULOS: And this stress test is starting this week.
GRAHAM: Yes, this idea of nationalizing banks is not comfortable, but I think we have gotten so many toxic assets spread throughout the banking and financial community throughout the world that we're going to have to do something that no one ever envisioned a year ago, no one likes, but, to me, banking and housing are the root cause of this problem. And I'm very much afraid that any program to salvage the bank is going to require the government...
STEPHANOPOULOS: So what would you do now?
GRAHAM: I -- I would not take off the idea of nationalizing the banks.
WATERS: We've come a long way...
SCHUMER: Let me just say this. George Bush, a very conservative president, had more government intervention in the financial system than any president in history. But I would not be for nationalizing. I think government's not good at making these decisions as to who gets loans and how this happens.
I think the Geithner plan, despite the fact that the market was disappointed it didn't have details -- and I think that was just bad signaling -- is a very good plan. And I think, when the details are learned...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Explain why.
SCHUMER: I'm going to explain why. When the details are learned, people are going to like it. First, it's bold and big. This idea of dying a death of 1,000 cuts -- this bank is in trouble, we deal with that, this company is in trouble -- no. You saw headlines in newspapers, $2.5 trillion when you add in the Fed and everything else, even though it's only using the TARP money that we have.
Second, he doesn't go for the mistake, I think, that Secretary Paulson made, one-size-fits-all. Every bank needs capital injections. Every bank for -- every bank needs bad assets taken off their balance sheets.
Rather, he says, we have four basic tools. We're going to examine each bank that has trouble and see which policy meets their needs. Sometimes it'll be capital injections. Sometimes it'll be bad assets. Sometimes it'll be something else. That makes sense. But the third thing which people always discount is this TALF. The TALF goes around Wall Street and gets right to the buyers.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's the Federal Reserve using their own capital.
SCHUMER: It's the Federal Reserve using its own capital to bolster the lending markets, and they're going to go right to the consumer. They're going to look at credit card loans. They're going to look at home loans. They're going to look at auto loans, which are now -- you can't get a car loan, even if you have a good credit rating.
SCHUMER: And they're going to look -- they're going to look at small business loans. Now, this worked when they did it for two smaller areas, commercial paper and interbank lending. They're now going to talk about that on a broad basis...
STEPHANOPOULOS: So let me -- let me...
SCHUMER: ... and that should get the economy kick-started.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me see if we have something of a consensus here. If I'm hearing correctly -- and do correct me if I'm not -- is that it sounds like you have a consensus here to give Geithner a chance. Let's see if these stress tests will work. But if not, it sounds like everyone, except Senator Schumer, is open to a much more radical infusion of...
KING: I hate to say, I think Chuck and I are somewhat on the same page here on this. And Lindsey and Maxine are almost on the same page, which -- I don't know what this means about the world.
GRAHAM: You may have to edit this program.
STEPHANOPOULOS: A new kind of bipartisanship.
KING: I'm sure -- I'm sure President -- I'm sure President Obama is watching this show this morning. I would just urge him not to repeat what happened with the stimulus bill. If everyone is at the table early on, I think you can see a chance for real progress.
SCHUMER: And, you know, let me just say...
WATERS: So, you know, Chuck, I have to say that I would like to see a lot more details from Geithner.
SCHUMER: There will be. WATERS: And I am absolutely focused on the foreclosure problem. We have to dedicate a significant amount of that money to dealing with these foreclosures.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We're going to see that from the president this week, right, $50 billion to reduce the -- the cost for most homeowners who are facing trouble.
SCHUMER: Right. Although, you know, on that one...
WATERS: That's right.
SCHUMER: ... I would try to move it up to $100 billion.
WATERS: Easily.
SCHUMER: I agree that the housing area is the key to this.
WATERS: It's the epicenter.
SCHUMER: And dealing with it -- the one thing I think they're going to do in housing, which I think is pretty good, is they're going to focus a little more on the servicer and the bondholder and use some sticks, as well as some carrots...
STEPHANOPOULOS: And so they're going to get...
SCHUMER: ... and get them to the table.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And get them to the table and have them write down the mortgages so no one is paying more than 31 percent of their income. Makes sense to you?
GRAHAM: Yes, it does. And that's why I put $20-something billion in the bill for the FDIC to do that. If you don't stabilize housing, you're never going to fix this problem. The way you stabilize housing is you try to get control of foreclosures.
WATERS: That's right.
GRAHAM: You try to stop the bleeding of the housing market.
WATERS: That's right.
GRAHAM: That's why you needed the full Isakson amendment to get excess inventory. You've got a huge inventory problem. You've got foreclosures that have to be dealt with. And that goes back to banks.
I think we've done too little, too late. I think the TARP opportunity was a missed opportunity. We've soured the public on bailouts. This bill makes it harder for all of us to come together and get another $500 billion.
So the country needs to understand this puzzle: banking, housing, and general economy. The general economy will never prove -- improve until you do something about credit and banking and housing. And we've just scratched the surface to the major problem this country faces. So taking an idea off the table...
SCHUMER: Let me just say...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me just say, you put one other idea on the table. You think it's going to take another $500 billion that hasn't been asked for yet...
GRAHAM: I've been to the Budget Committee...
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... for the banks?
GRAHAM: ... and they tell me that $350 billion left in TARP will not isolate the toxic assets and jump-start housing.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We're running out of time. I just want to know, do you all agree with that?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is it going to take more money?
WATERS: ... buy up those toxic assets. They're going to write them down to about 5 cents on the dollar. Get the private sector involved, and they're going to get rid of all of those toxic assets.
SCHUMER: I would just make one other point.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We have five seconds.
SCHUMER: You can have a big, bold, successful plan without nationalization. That's what the administration is trying to do.
KING: And let's -- let's -- and let's try to work together on it. Let's really work together from the start and won't be repeating this, what we're doing today.
STEPHANOPOULOS: On that note, we have to stop. Thank you all for a great, great discussion.
Before we go, a quick shoutout to one of your colleagues. John Dingell became the longest-serving congressman in American history this week, big celebration at the Capitol. He first won the House seat once held by his father back in 1955.
Congratulations, Congressman Dingell.


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Don't know which photograph I enjoyed more...the drawing room or the girls!ReplyDelete
Don't they look smart...
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Oh, lovely! Can I come and stay with your brother? I always enjoy a pootle round the shops in Harrogate. Hope that you will soon be feeling very much better. (I trust that Miss Rayne is just clearing her throat and not being sarky!)ReplyDelete
I know exactly how you feel... Every time I go back to France I have to tactfully share time equally between all the members of my family, otherwise it's endless fighting. It feels nice to be wanted by all but at the same time it can be really exhausting!!ReplyDelete
Welcome back Dash. Too bad about the cold, but how much fun you have had! Love the picture of the cute "rustic" pooches. Feel better! Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
I think that bug is multi-national. I've been far more ill this time, than I've ever been with a simple cold. Two weeks and I"m still without a voice.ReplyDelete
Hope you are feeling stronger soon. You must be well to enjoy the rest of Advent and Christmas and Epiphany and all the celebrations.
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Oh hooray! Well not for your cold but that you are back!! You have been missed. And yes, I do know that surge of love from our family when we see them again. I am very much missing mine. Hopefully, at some point I'll get home after the holidays.ReplyDelete
Please feel better--are you taking liquid zinc? If not there is the Uzbek cure--salt in vodka to burn out the germs!
Of course, loved the sweet face of the puppers!
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - After years of delays, work on Ballpark Village in St. Louis is finally under way.
The St. Louis Cardinals broke ground Friday on the $100 million first phase of the project that will be developed on the site of the old Busch Stadium that sits adjacent to the new one that opened in 2006.
Ballpark Village was part of the development agreement between the city and the Cardinals when the new stadium was built, but the project has been delayed by the weak economy and redesigns.
Phase one will include a two-block entertainment complex with a massive Cardinals-themed hall of fame and restaurant featuring a 300-seat deck overlooking the stadium, a "Budweiser Brew House" showcasing Anheuser-Busch's history in St. Louis, and a plaza for live entertainment.


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However, Platkow-Gilewski said that this announcement has nothing to do with the "extraordinary" announcement for current and future The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings owners, which will be… you guessed it, extraordinary. (Or so we hope!) Straight from the horse's mouth:
No, there will be no announcement of a new game. But to give you some hints and not to spoil the surprise, CD Projekt RED and GOG.com have prepared something very special for all the PC fans of The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings, who already have the game, as well as for all those who will buy one any time in the future.
Good stuff from one of the better video game development companies of our time! Any speculations/guesses on what this "legendary" PC RPG would be? My money is on one of the Black Isle games but one can never be sure, can they?


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Good night to all and sweet dreams.
Small steps towards healing!
Today it feels like autumn. I am here in my balcony seepinget hot coffee and soaking in the Sun and the breeze is streaking gently my hair! It is beautiful.
I owe you an update programwise. I gave myself a set of rules that I have to follow! It shocked me that almost all of them had to do with my basic needs, proving how poorly I was treating myself. Most important rule the lights go out at 1.30. I was mostly able to follow that and although it has been less than a week my sleep benefited greatly. I also keep the drapes open so I can maintain a normal sleep cycle and I got used to it much faster than I originally thought!
Second rule many mini meals. That made a huge difference!
Third rule back exercises, well to be honest I only did them twice, but I will get back on track!
Rule number four meditation and eft exercises. Those two are really allowing me to focus on myself.
As you can see my main goal is healing and I think this is a great start. As I getc more comfortable into my new routine I will make a more elaborate schedule or perhaps it won't be needed! I chose to keep things light in order to not overwhelm myself!
It was time to become my own life coach!
My Venus in Virgo
Do you feel it? We are in the middle of the winter, but i feel a quickening deep inside my soul. The Wheel is turning and i feel like a flower that holds out during the cold and darkness patiently waiting for what is to come. The warmth is just a breath away.
So,a pre-cleansing cleansing is in order! It is a pre-cleansing because the official cleansing will take place a bit later.(Who can say these two sentences 3 times fast?) It has to start with me.I have decided i want to get rid of a few things. Or better yet fix a few issues. As a new mother(i do not know if i still count as one) i tend to put myself last, although i had this bad habit way before i ever became pregnant. I want to organize a few aspects of my life and take better care of myself. I have come to realize that i really need a sleep schedule, if i ever want to have quality of sleep. I also want to schedule small meals during the day and stop living of unbelievable amounts of coffee and one giga-meal when i finally sit down at night. It is easy to make excuses but the truth is if i can make time for everybody else i can make a little bit of time for myself too. And my Venus in Virgo has decided that the way to do it is through optimizing my time by organizing my ass off. I also have already made time for a bit of a daily meditation. This is how i found out i need to take better care of me, and if you think that it was quite obvious in the first place you misjudged and completely under evaluated my ability of compartmentalizing. I am really good at that.
After my latest meditation sessions, i am more grounded, more relaxed, stronger and i sleep better. I need to incorporate a few healthy habits in my life. Every year around this time, i always have a heavier load when it comes to work and i end up over stressed and very tired. This year i am going to break this vicious cycle and just let go. And yes, it sounds a bit controversial to let go by scheduling pretty much every aspect of my life, but this is the only way, i will remember my needs. Which means lists.. I love lists. Did i mention my Venus in Virgo?
I will share the specifics as soon as i have them, so you can laugh at my apparent ocd. Until then i leave you with many hugs, kisses and witchy blessings!
My "spot" on the ledge
The Sun has returned. I hope He stays. I loved the snow but one night was enough for me, this series of days with bad weather has been too much for me. It has been too long. My Canadian friends would laugh at the fact that although it snowed for a couple of nights there never was a layer of snow on the ground. But i digress, I need the Sun. My plants are so much happier today. Light glistens around the room because of the sun catchers's dancing with the wind.
I know, i know...I am such a Leo sometimes and what's with all the cats's obsession with the Sun? Well. i can't describe it. It can not be put in words. My favorite thing growing up was sitting on a spot in my balcony, soaking in the Sun. I used to do my homework there, listen to my music, write poetry and meditate. My "spot" was on the ledge of the balcony and i had to climb up there a bit. All my neighbors used to watch me, probably thinking how uncomfortable it must be to sit there and perhaps wondering how i do not get bored. But my spot on the ledge could not get boring. I used to drive my poor mother crazy, especially during the hot greek summers, making her worry i would get heat stroke. But those were the best days, the Sun was stronger. I could not wait to get back from school and make a coffee, grab a book and my walkman(boy, i am old!). And although i hate the cold, the moment the Sun came out i would dress up in a million layers and go on the ledge(that sounds a bit suicidal!).
I miss my ledge. I tried to recreate it here. But the truth is there is only one place that the Sun would be just right. The problem is that it is on the most teenyy, tiny, tiniest of balconies that we currently use to keep our trash before we throw them out and it does not have a tent. I would be an extremely weird sight, but then again i always have been one. My husband has tried to change my mind many times, because it would be inconvienient, since we are lazy people that take the trash out every two or three days. If i do that we would not have a place to keep the trash. Do not tell him that, but i think not collecting garbage anymore would be a plus. As for what the neighbors would think, i believe that it would not make them think i am any weirder than they already think i am.
So, what about you? Do you have a "spot" that you enjoy sitting by the hours if given the chance?
Happy New Year!
Have a blessed 2015 full of love, joy and abundance in all areas of your life!


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Manuel knew just where to go to begin to the transformation. He took the 300C to Nunez Auto Body in Phoenix, Arizona, where they sanded down the stock paintjob and laid down coats of purple candy and clear, along with some pinstripe work. After seeing the finished product, Manuel was motivated to continue on to the next phase of the build and completely redo the interior. He sent the 300C to California Upholstery, out of Bell Gardens, California, where they wrapped the seats in purple leather and stingray, and they also covered the headrests and steering wheel with elephant hide. He then enlisted Audio Factory, out of La Puente, California, to install a Panasonic head unit. The system is backed up by two 1000 Hifonics amps that help push two 12-inch L7s, nine mids, and two tweeters. The head unit helps send images to the 22 TVs spread throughout the car within its various custom fiberglass enclosures. The crew at Audio Factory also went ahead and handled the airbag set up which empowers the ride to do side-to-side, pancake, and other maneuvers.
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In this July 4, 2012, file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., left, Marine Cpl. Todd Love of Atlanta, Ga., center, and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez of Deming, N.M., pose for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012, at Johns Hopkins Hospital.


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